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Pictures of the week: From a space-age car to an unlikely animal friendship

  • Meet the 'Cosmotron' bubble car - a 140mph dream machine converted from a 1998 BMW Z3 with a bubble top. Paul Bacon, 39, from Leicester furnished the space-age car - which has echoes of the Jetsons cartoon series - with household objects such as salt and pepper shakers on the engine and moisturiser bottletops on the rear grille (Andy Willsheer/Rex Features)
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    Meet the Cosmotron bubble car - the amazing 140mph dream machine converted from a 1998 BMW Z3 with a bubble top. Paul Bacon, 39, from Leicester furnished the space-age car with household objects such as salt and pepper shakers on the engine and moisturiser bottletops on the rear grille (Andy Willsheer/Rex Features)

    Meet the 'Cosmotron' bubble car - a 140mph dream machine converted from a 1998 BMW Z3 with a bubble top. Paul Bacon, 39, from Leicester furnished the space-age car - which has echoes of the Jetsons cartoon series - with household objects such as salt and pepper shakers on the engine and moisturiser bottletops on the rear grille (Andy Willsheer/Rex Features)
  • A man slips on a bed of ripe, rotten and green tomatoes during the annual 'Tomatina Festival' in Bunol, Spain. The tradition first started in 1944 in the town near Valencia (Rex Features)
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    A man slips on a bed of ripe, rotten and green tomatoes during the annual 'Tomatina Festival' in Spain (Rex Features)

    A man slips on a bed of ripe, rotten and green tomatoes during the annual 'Tomatina Festival' in Bunol, Spain. The tradition first started in 1944 in the town near Valencia (Rex Features)
  • I can't moo-ove: This is the moment a poor cow got her head stuck in a tree in Monkmoor, Shropshire - and had to be rescued by six firefighters (SWNS)
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    I can't moo-ove: This is the moment a poor cow got his head stuck in a tree in Monkmoor, Shropshire - and had to be rescued by six firefighters (SWNS)

    I can't moo-ove: This is the moment a poor cow got her head stuck in a tree in Monkmoor, Shropshire - and had to be rescued by six firefighters (SWNS)
    SWNS
  • A view at dusk of the City of London, with the Heron Tower in the foreground in front of the Shard (Jason Hawkes)
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    A dusk view of the City of London, with Heron Tower in the foreground in front of the Shard (Jason Hawkes)

    A view at dusk of the City of London, with the Heron Tower in the foreground in front of the Shard (Jason Hawkes)
    Jason Hawkes
  • OK, hop on: A Costa Rican tree frog hitches a ride on the back of a 'Hercules' beetle (Caters)
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    A Costa Rican tree frog hitches a ride on the back of a 'Hercules' beetle (CATERS)

    OK, hop on: A Costa Rican tree frog hitches a ride on the back of a 'Hercules' beetle (Caters)
Meet the 'Cosmotron' bubble car - a 140mph dream machine converted from a 1998 BMW Z3 with a bubble top. Paul Bacon, 39, from Leicester furnished the space-age car - which has echoes of the Jetsons cartoon series - with household objects such as salt and pepper shakers on the engine and moisturiser bottletops on the rear grille (Andy Willsheer/Rex Features)
A man slips on a bed of ripe, rotten and green tomatoes during the annual 'Tomatina Festival' in Bunol, Spain. The tradition first started in 1944 in the town near Valencia (Rex Features)
I can't moo-ove: This is the moment a poor cow got her head stuck in a tree in Monkmoor, Shropshire - and had to be rescued by six firefighters (SWNS)
A view at dusk of the City of London, with the Heron Tower in the foreground in front of the Shard (Jason Hawkes)
OK, hop on: A Costa Rican tree frog hitches a ride on the back of a 'Hercules' beetle (Caters)
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